Recent content by StradivariusBone

Yeah, it's not great for what the position involves. The long story short is after 2008, Florida schools stopped increasing wages and now are faced with the consequences of almost two decades of wage stagnation.That said, it'd be a great position for a recent grad looking to hone experience...

Once again this position is open. The pay seems to have improved slightly from before.https://iss.brevard.k12.fl.us/JOBLST.pgm?task=rview&atokcntr=3011&atokjob=000673

Sorry to hear, Tim. I've worked in situations like that. I'm very fortunate to be in a supportive environment now and I'm very grateful and humbled by it, knowing how the grass sometimes grows on the other side.Granted, I don't know your goals or tolerance for academia, but I'd throw out...

A society grows great when old men hang truss whose lights they know they shall never focus.

I understand fear of heights, but that seems like a silly hill to die on. I've worked in venues with and without loading bridges and definitely prefer having them. It makes a lot of things much safer and less complicated.I'm sure he'll see this before long, but @MNicolai will have a lot of...

The hoists look very similar to Pro-X chain hoists. We have a few of those and they're decent little 1 ton manual hoists. That said, I wholeheartedly agree with everything said. It could be fine, it could fail as soon as it's loaded. Depending on where you're located, you might find some...

I really like the Ryobi battery powered ones. I think their narrow crown stapler has sequential fire, but I can't recall if the medium one does as well. It's battery but sort of pneumatic in the sense that it has a small compressor that charges up enough to fire a single staple each time.

The main thing to think about when communicating what you're doing with the rail is- what you're moving, which direction it's moving, and where it's moving. I train my ops to call "Lineset X, Moving IN/OUT, DOWNSTAGE/MIDSTAGE/UPSTAGE". Not everyone on stage will understand what you mean when...

You didn't mention what receiving hardware you have, but I know that some of it will handle RTSP feeds as well. I've used Magewell decoders and they can pick up either NDI or plain RTSP. Most of the POE security cams dump some flavor of RTSP natively.

June's book describes a great method for rigging up iron sights too. I like that method if you're trying to save money.

It is! I didn't realize she had another book out. I picked up her Spot Op guide book a few years ago and its great!

I did this with LED strips inside a frame between two pieces of muslin to catch the light from the strips. It worked well enough, but the individual LEDs were somewhat visible and it didn't look all that natural since the gradually lost intensity toward the center of the "pane". In that case...

https://web.archive.org/web/20150602024256/http://blogidaho.biz/earthlink/spotlite.htm@dvsDave Our fearless leader succeeded where I failed. I do remember it being funny (and it is). We're running a musical for an outside group and they asked to have the dad's (and occasionally a mom) run...

@derekleffew any chance you still have a copy of the commandments?

That's another nice part of putting them US.